Beauty and Bacteria : Visualizations in Molecular Microbial Ecology

摘要

Aesthetics and science are intertwined in a very basic and practical sense in the making of CSLM-photographs. At the same time, traditional scientific representations (such as those produced by the COMSTAT program) are as constructed as the photographs. The essential difference to the researchers is that construction is not as visible in the COMSTAT-representations, which makes the representations seem less aesthetic and thus more scientific.